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Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:25:47 GMT2015-08-02T18:25:47ZThe embodiment of trauma in science fiction film: a case study of Argentinahttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/32515
Title: The embodiment of trauma in science fiction film: a case study of Argentina
Authors: Cornejo, Yvonne Frances
Abstract: A small number of articles and book chapters have analysed post-dictatorship Argentine science fiction film from a historico-political perspective, tracing embedded references to the 1976-1983 dictatorship and showing the ways in which films such as Hombre mirando al sudeste (Subiela, 1986), Moebius (Mosquera, 1996), La sonámbula (Spiner, 1998) or La Antena (Sapir, 2007) address the themes of political repression and violence through metaphor and connotation, under cover of a fantastic narrative.
My approach complements these readings, extending the corpus and outlining the first book-length study of Argentine science fiction film. Contesting positions held by certain critics that science fiction is inadequate in terms of dealing with traumatic historical issues, and aiming to move beyond seeing the genre only as a ‘camouflage device’ which has enabled authors to hide their message within a fantasy framework under the threat of persecution, this thesis argues that science fiction film fills a gap where representations of trauma memory are concerned. On the one hand, its narrative strategies and tropes are highly suited to such representations. On the other, its status as popular culture places it on the outer margins of a political and cultural framework that has consistently denied the atrocities perpetrated in a totalitarian context and sought to impose a unilateral, hegemonic version of history. In the course of the study I draw on the fields of science fiction, psychology, and Latin American studies in a cross-disciplinary approach.Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:16:59 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/325152015-07-08T13:16:59ZArgentina 2001. Videoactivismos.http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31881
Title: Argentina 2001. Videoactivismos.
Authors: Garavelli, Clara
Abstract: Brief web-entry that describes the emergence of video-activist groups after the events of December 2001 in Argentina.Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:33:55 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/318812015-03-16T15:33:55ZElefante Blanco/White Elephant (Campanella)http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31880
Title: Elefante Blanco/White Elephant (Campanella)
Authors: Garavelli, Clara
Editors: Oyarzabal, S.; Pigott, M.
Abstract: Review of the film Elefante Blanco/White Elephant (Campanella 2013)Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:31:06 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/318802015-03-16T15:31:06ZReflexiones fragmentadas: pensar los Estudios Culturales desde Españahttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/31879
Title: Reflexiones fragmentadas: pensar los Estudios Culturales desde España
Authors: Garavelli, Clara; Arroyo, P.; Casáus, M.; Ortega, M. L.
Abstract: El título de este libro describe, en cierto modo, su contexto de origen: un foro de debate y discusión abierto a distintas aproximaciones al campo de los "estudios culturales" y a la reflexión sobre la validez disciplinaria y la utilidad interpretativa de este tipo de enfoques para el análisis de los fenómenos sociales, políticos y culturales de América Latina. Dichas reflexiones, no obstante, fueron hechas desde el contexto académico español, un espacio de enunciación que hasta muy recientemente ha sido particularmente reacio a la introducción de la in-disciplina que entraña la aproximación inter-trans-disciplinaria a los fenómenos del campo de la cultura propia de los Estudios Culturales. Si bien hoy en día cuenta con un número considerable de partidarios, la realidad sigue siendo la de rechazo, principalmente por parte de las instituciones que regulan los quehaceres académicos en base a un sistema de puntuación y competencias regladas que no contemplan la posibilidad que ofrecen los estudios que sortean esas barreras disciplinares impuestas, condenándoles así al olvido. En este sentido, el presente volumen pretende ser a la vez un compendio de algunas de las principales aportaciones que los estudios culturales y la teoría postcolonial han hecho al campo de los estudios latinoamericanos en las últimas décadas, y también una propuesta y una apuesta a favor de la pertinencia de este tipo de aproximaciones a la hora de abrir nuevos campos de análisis y nuevos debates transdisciplinares en la academia española.Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:21:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/318792015-03-16T15:21:00ZVideo Experimental Argentino Contemporáneo: Una Cartografía Críticahttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/31874
Title: Video Experimental Argentino Contemporáneo: Una Cartografía Crítica
Authors: Garavelli, Clara
Abstract: Since the beginning of the new millennium, experimental video in Argentina has spread at great speed. Far from being a cult product created by only a few, as was the case in previous decades, it has become popular and has acquired a wide range of characteristics. The disparity of aesthetics and creative processes, of conceptual models, of spaces and forms of exhibition, as well as the mutation of video in terms of its format and artistic medium, have continued to make the analytical categories of experimental video problematic, rendering traditional modes of inquiry/fields of knowledge insufficient in the study of these types of works. Accordingly, this book aims to systematically study, from a plurality of perspectives, these kinds of productions that have been increased exponentially and that illustrate, among other things, the changes not only in the field of audiovisual production but also in the national socio-political context. Hence, a critical cartography of contemporary experimental Argentine video productions is outlined, bearing in mind that such productions are influenced by a national reality marked by the post-dictatorship period and by the political, social and economic consequences of the rampant implementation of neoliberal policies. Thus, the corpus is limited to those works directly connected to this context and which have a particular social and political sensibility. This is a significant research project that aims to fill a gap in the theoretical field of Argentine video creation.Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:08:17 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/318742015-03-16T12:08:17ZA magical balance of opposites’. Reading Luigi Ghirri’s photography through Walter Benjamin’http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31559
Title: A magical balance of opposites’. Reading Luigi Ghirri’s photography through Walter Benjamin’
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Abstract: In this article I contend that Ghirri’s photography can fruitfully be read through Benjamin’ thought, in particular through his key notions of experience, montage, aura, beauty, mystery and dialectical image, and at the same time I seek to redress a common misreading of Benjamin’s work in some art theory. This approach allows me to illuminate from a new angle Ghirri’s aesthetics and the change it underwent between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, and to demonstrate that his work effectively draws on Benjaminian dialectics to achieve a ‘magical balance of opposites’. Through a close analysis of selected Ghirri’s photographs from two of his main series from the 1970 – Kodachrome (1970–1978) and Still life (1975–1979) – and from two series from the 1980s – Il profilo delle nuvole/The Outline of Clouds (1980–1989) and Atelier Morandi (1989–1990) – I show that Ghirri’s photography moves from an early effort to deconstruct the assemblage of images that compose reality to an attempt to re-create an aura of places that are felt to be on the brink of disappearing. In so doing he both expressed a postmodern sense of loss of experience and history and challenged this by presenting photography as a means of achieving knowledge and experience of the world, before the onset of the digital age.Tue, 03 Feb 2015 10:14:38 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/315592015-02-03T10:14:38ZThe impact of grammatical differences on Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpretinghttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/31432
Title: The impact of grammatical differences on Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting
Authors: Wang, Miao
Abstract: In this PhD thesis, I investigate the impact of grammatical differences on English-Mandarin Chinese simultaneous interpreting (SI), drawing upon an empirical study of professional and student interpreters. The thesis focuses on the effects of three English grammatical categories including passives, adverbials and noun phrases and of three Mandarin Chinese grammatical categories including coverb phrases, noun phrases and topic-prominent clauses on SI between the two languages. For each category, I compare interpretations of instances in which the grammatical structures are the same across the two languages with interpretations of instances in which the grammatical structures differ across the two languages, focusing on accuracy of content and appropriateness of delivery. The results indicate that grammatical differences have a statistically significant impact on the interpreting performance of both professionals and students, although the impact of expertise is also attested through the consistently better performance of professionals than of students.Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:07:45 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/314322015-01-16T12:07:45ZPulp : youth language, popular culture and literature in 1990s Italian fictionhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/31136
Title: Pulp : youth language, popular culture and literature in 1990s Italian fiction
Authors: Litherland, Kate
Abstract: In this thesis I analyse a selection of Italian pulp fiction from the 1990s. My approach combines sociolinguistics and literary criticism, and uses textual analysis to show how this writing fuses influences from contemporary youth cultures and languages, and Italian literary tradition. The key themes of my analysis are pulp's multifaceted relationships with Anglophone culture, in particular punk music, its links to previous generations of Italian authors and intellectuals, and its engagement with contemporary Italian social issues. In Chapter 1, I review the existing literature on 1990s Italian pulp. Following on from this, I outline how a primarily linguistic approach allows me to consider a selection of authors, such as Rossana Campo, Silvia Ballestra, Aldo Nove, Enrico Brizzi and Isabella Santacroce, from a unifying perspective, and how this approach offers a means of considering the varied but contemporary perspectives on Italian culture, society, politics and literature offered by this group of writers. In Chapter 2, I show how pulp authors construct their linguistic style on the basis of spoken youth language varieties, and consider their motivations for doing so. Chapter 3 traces the literary precedents for this use of language, using comparative textual analysis to examine the nature of the relationships between pulp and American literature, and late twentieth century Italian fiction by Arbasino, Tondelli and Pasolini, in order to question some of the myths surrounding the literary sources of pulp. Chapter 4 deals with the relationship between pulp and popular culture, contrasting the notion of popular culture presented in this fiction to that proposed by earlier generations of Italian intellectuals, and discussing the theoretical perspectives that this reveals. Finally, I debate the extent to which pulps often disturbing and controversial subject matter reflects an attempt to deal with ethical issues, and consider pulp's success in achieving these aims.Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:45:20 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/311362014-12-15T10:45:20ZThe significance of place in the prose writings of Hervé Bazinhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/31135
Title: The significance of place in the prose writings of Hervé Bazin
Authors: Hallam, Diana
Abstract: Manuscript evidence from the Archives Municipales in Nancy provides insights into the way in which Bazin used his settings to create verisimilitude and structure. His use of place is also significant from a thematic point of view. His experiences at his childhood home, Le PÃ¢tys, seem to have been particularly formative, inspiring the Rezeau trilogy. Throughout his writing career, Bazin would re-examine his most dominant place-based concerns in a variety of fictional contexts.;Bazin analysed the way in which some individuals identified themselves strongly with their homes, drawing their sense of identity and continuity from their environment. However, he was also interested in the effect of exile on such rooted people whose close relationship with a specific place was broken or interrupted.;Bazin's portrayal of interpersonal relationships also led to important place-based themes. He showed the tendency of individuals to turn their homes into personal fiefdoms or territories at the expense of others. He also considered the phenomenon of running away from home, examining the motives of those who took flight. Bazin's novels assert the particularly close association between women and the home but also seen to question the ability of men and women to live harmoniously under the same roof.;The outdoors tends to provide places of retreat for Bazin's characters and his novels suggest that the beauty and complexity of the natural world is a source of solace of life. Indeed, Bazin's affection for the natural environment seems to have inspired much of the more philosophical writing of his later years in which he considers man's role and responsibilities in relation to the uniqueness of his planet.;Overall, by means of his novels and his non-fictional writing, Bazin affirms the importance of place in determining man's identity, relationships and ultimate significance.Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:45:20 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/311352014-12-15T10:45:20ZRepresentations of Shakespeare on the French stage since the 1960shttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/31133
Title: Representations of Shakespeare on the French stage since the 1960s
Authors: Fayard, Nicole.
Abstract: The transformations of twentieth-century French theatre have been accompanied by increased interest in Shakespeare. By the late 1940s French academics and directors spoke of a 'need' for his plays. As shown by Jean Chatenet and Jean Jacquot in the early 1960s, the vogue for Shakespeare was closely linked to the modernisation and decentralisation of theatre in France and grew rapidly until 1964, the quatercentenary of his birth.;Since then, theatre directors and critics have continued to regard Shakespeare as a leading figure on the French stage. Charting the evolution of Shakespearian production in France from 1960 to 1997, our survey shows that Shakespeare's theatre has continued to thrive, reaching unprecedented heights by the end of the century. Each new wave of theatre directors has influenced the Shakespearian repertoire and generated new appropriations of his theatre, from critical interpretations of his plays in the light of the theories of Bertolt Brecht and Jan Kott in the 1960s and the iconoclastic radicalisations of the 1970s to the self-referential postmodern 'theatre of images' of the 1980s and 1990s and the playful and radical appropriations of the young directors of the 1990s.;French directors have frequently referred to the excellence and transcendent nature of Shakespeare's theatre to explain their interest in his plays. However, this explanation is not convincing in the light of the high cultural capital needed to understand Shakespeare's plays. Interpreting the evidence in the light of theories of cultural materialism, we conclude that Shakespearian production has been maintained by belief in the mythical status of Shakespeare. This explains why, far from threatening Shakespearian production, the 1968 rejection of the classics actually encouraged its growth.Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:45:19 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/311332014-12-15T10:45:19ZMetafiction and aesthetics in Christa Wolf's Nachdenkken über Christa T., Kindheitsmuster and Sommerstückhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/31134
Title: Metafiction and aesthetics in Christa Wolf's Nachdenkken über Christa T., Kindheitsmuster and Sommerstück
Authors: Kuzi, Ursula.
Abstract: This dissertation presents research into the aesthetics of Christa Wolf's prose. As a post-World War II writer, Wolf sets out to practise in her prose a new aesthetic which rids itself of the modernist detachment from the object of discourse. Searching to involve herself as a writer in her art she initiates a humane aesthetic which ignores the ontological barrier between fictitious and real-life discourse. The relationship between the two discourses is explored by Jurgen Peterson in Erzahlsysteme: eine Poetik epischer Texte (1993) and Fiktionalitat und Asthetik: eine Philosophie det Dichtung (1996). Taking as my starting-point some of the theoretical considerations set out by Peterson, I analyse the narrators' frequent interventions from the time in which the text is being written in the context of Wolf's aesthetics. The risk inherent in disrupting a coherent fictional discourse with metafiction is, according to Petersen, that the reader will switch to the perception mode used for matters of fact. The three texts chosen for this study, Nachdenken uber Christa T. (1968), Sommerstuck (1989) and especially Kindheitmuster (1976), have sections which deliberately gravitate towards the genre of essayistic literature. The argument of the dissertation is that, although the narrative is subverted by these metafictional interventions, particularly by the profound moral concerns they embody, the construction of the texts proves sufficiently sophisticated to absorb the real-life content back into fiction. My dissertation focuses therefore on the narrative structure of Wolf's texts, attempting to trace back the overall aesthetic to the narrative techniques employed in the text. The desire to respond to the post-war loss of faith in humanity with an aesthetic which safeguards and enhances sensitivity towards the humane in readers is in itself admirable, even though it challenges the concept of fiction. The originality of Wolf's ambitious aesthetics is particularly striking when viewed in comparison to the aesthetics of Virginia Woolf and Jurek Becker, which incorporate traumatic experience in a rather different way. The method of comparative study is also employed to shed light on the question of where is Wolf is to be situated in the spectrum of contemporary writing styles.Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:45:19 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/311342014-12-15T10:45:19ZLandscape in Theodor Storm's Novellen : an aspect of the development of Strom's descriptive style into poetic realismhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/31132
Title: Landscape in Theodor Storm's Novellen : an aspect of the development of Strom's descriptive style into poetic realism
Authors: Baker, Christine Lesley.
Abstract: Theodor Storm is regarded as a leading exponent of the Poetic Realism movement in nineteenth century Germany, and is also popular as an author renowned for his love of his native region of Schleswig-Holstein. This study aims to explore how the landscape depicted in Storm's narrative fiction contributes to the assessment of him and his intentions as a Poetic Realist author.;After a summary of the concepts behind Poetic Realist writing and an investigation of the Novelle, its main vehicle, a selection of Novellen are analysed, incorporating works from Storm's early fiction and Marchen, deemed by many as direct descendants of Romantic prose, through to his last Novelle, regarded as one of the finest pieces of Poetic Realist writing.;We contest hypotheses that Storm's early work is strongly founded in Romantic or Biedermeier writing, for both his ideologies and his narrative style are fundamentally different from those of his forebears. Though much criticised for producing mere "Bilderreihen", Storm handled themes uncharacteristic for the age, commenting on them beneath the surface of his idylls. We ascertain that the landscape plays a fundamental role in enabling him to write such tales accessible on two levels.;As Storm's works mature, the themes in the early narratives are developed and Storm examines questions pertinent to the whole of mankind's existence. 'Unpoetic' topics are transformed; man's solitude and insignificance become blindingly apparent in the environment by which he is surrounded. The landscape symbolises the threats to his very being.;The study concludes that Theodor Storm's own perceptions about literature concur with those popular in the latter half of the nineteenth century; but uniquely, the landscape by which he was surrounded enabled Storm to fulfil his own criteria and to develop into a Poetic Realist delving to depths explored by no other of his time.Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:45:19 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/311322014-12-15T10:45:19ZEstudios sobre nuevos medioshttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/29227
Title: Estudios sobre nuevos medios
Authors: Garavelli, Clara
Abstract: Establecer una historia de la liter
atura exist
ente en la Argentina
abocada a los
Estudios sobre Nuevos Medios
es remont
arnos a un
pasado reciente y prácticamente inexplor
ado. A pesar de ello, reconstruir
esta tradición dispersa supone un co
mplejo trabajo de arqueología, ya
que la mayoría de los pocos textos e
scritos al respec
to se encuentran
perdidos o en mano de unos pocos afor
tunados que estuvieron presentes
en el momento de su ap
arición en público. Gener
almente se trata de
publicaciones de pocas tir
adas, y muchas de ellas
fueron financiadas por
instituciones sin fines de lucro, lo c
ual hace su localiz
ación al día de hoy
aún más complicada, ya que
no han ingresado en sus or
ígenes al circuito
comercial. [Opening paragraph]
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Title: A shared star imagery : The Argentine actor Ricardo Darín through Spanish posters
Authors: Garavelli, Clara
Editors: Maio, B.
Abstract: From the early days of cinematography to the present, images have been at the center of its star system. A host of pictures are involved in the production, distribution and exhibition of films and they contribute not only to a film’s commercial success, but also to the construction of the personas that strengthen the foundations of the film industry. Among these images, billboards have played a crucial role and have become cult objects inhabited by the stars’ auras. The composition and strategic locations of these posters have contributed to the promotion of specific actors/actresses within local cultural arenas. This is the case of the Argentine actor Ricardo Darín in Spain. Since the release of the film Nueve Reinas (Bielinsky 2000) and, shortly after, of El hijo de la novia (2001) -by the Oscar winning director Juan José Campanella-, Darín has risen to stardom in Spanish film culture. Accordingly, this article aims to analyze how the billboards of the films starred in by Darín and released in Spain have slowly changed their focus from images of landscapes with allegorical connotations to the plot of the film and ultimately to close-ups of Darín’s face, and how this change reflects his rising star status in the peninsula as well as a shared star imagery between Spain and Argentina.Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:25:44 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/292262014-10-29T16:25:44ZFernando E. Solanashttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/29225
Title: Fernando E. Solanas
Authors: Garavelli, Clara
Editors: Urraca, B.; Kramer, G.
Abstract: A sentimental longing mixed with political commitment, concern with the formal aspects of film, and the dream of an ideal imagined Argentine community permeate all of Solanas’s works. Arguably one of the most internationally acclaimed Latin American filmmaker-activists, Solanas broke into the world cinema stage at a time of significant global changes with a film that epitomizes all those qualities. The Hour of the Furnaces (La hora de los hornos, 1968), co-written with Octavio Getino, was made when the New Latin American Cinema was in the process of consolidation, when the Cuban Revolution and the French May of 1968 were globally spreading a climate of political agitation and when Argentina was under the influence of a military regime that proscribed Peronism and was experiencing the passage of many intellectuals – like Solanas himself – from a traditional left into a national left (Mestman 2003: 119). The avant-garde documentary style of The Hour of the Furnaces succeeds in revealing one of Solanas’s principal preoccupations: the capacity of cinema to advocate national and continental liberation from imperialism and multinational capital. [Opening Paragraph]
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Title: Memorias en transición. Producciones videográficas argentinas contemporáneas entre el video de creación y el corto documental
Authors: Garavelli, Clara
Abstract: In the past thirty years, the reinstatement of democracy in Argentina has been accompanied by an upsurge of audio-visual productions that deal with the impact of the last dictatorship. Whereas most of these works have been widely studied within traditional disciplines, there are certain hybrid productions located at the interstices of art and cinema, which still need to be properly analyzed. Accordingly, the aim of this article is to explore an array of short experimental videos that employ ‘a creative treatment of actuality’ (Grierson dixit) but which have not been the focus of academic attention within documentary theorists. Their ways of dealing with memory and its modes of representation reconfigure the traumatic past in the present whilst challenging the traditional documentary genre.
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Title: ¿Qué es lo experimental en el cine y video experimental argentino?
Authors: Garavelli, Clara; Torres, Alejandra
Editors: Garavelli, C.; Torres, A.
Abstract: Enmarcado dentro de los estudios que abordan la denominada Cultura Visual (Mirzoeff, 2003), el presente Dossier se propone explorar la problemática que acarrea la noción de “experimentalidad”, particularmente cuando es utilizada dentro del ámbito del cine y video argentino.
Description: The file associated with this record is embargoed while permission to archive is sought from the publisher. The final published version may be available through the links above.Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:53:23 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/292232014-10-29T11:53:23ZThe swimming pool as a site of subversion during the Spanish transition : The case of Pepito Piscina (Delgado 1978)http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29222
Title: The swimming pool as a site of subversion during the Spanish transition : The case of Pepito Piscina (Delgado 1978)
Authors: Garavelli, Clara
Editors: Hirsch, P.; Brown, C.
Abstract: In Spain, shortly after Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, an array of comedy films was made which used partial nudity and irreverent jokes as a way to contest the old regime’s prohibitions. Known as ‘El destape’, the years of transition to democracy where literally all about ‘uncovering’ –as the Spanish word suggests- that which was previously forbidden by film censors. The prudish moral and catholic values were challenged with stories of scams and brazen affairs normally interpreted by a macho character. Accordingly, this article aims to explore how the swimming pool acts as a site of conflict where the afore-censured values were subverted in the film by Luis María Delgado called Pepito piscinas (1977). Moreover, this text will also analyze to what extent the swimming pool puts the representation of certain stereotypes and gender conventions into play, particularly significant at a transitional time when those roles were called into question.
Description: The file associated with this record is embargoed while permission to archive is sought from the publisher. The final published version may be available through the links above.Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:42:32 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/292222014-10-29T11:42:32ZTranslators theorising translation : A study of Japanese/English translators’ accounts of dispute situations and its implications for translation pedagogyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/29157
Title: Translators theorising translation : A study of Japanese/English translators’ accounts of dispute situations and its implications for translation pedagogy
Authors: Sakamoto, Akiko
Abstract: The gap between theory and practice has long been an issue of discussion in Translation Studies, particularly in the pedagogy of translation. While the teaching of theory has been an integral part of translator education in academic institutions, students and practitioners of translation tend to think that practice should be prioritised over theory. Although scholars have often argued the benefit of theoretical knowledge of translation to practice, the discussions have tended to lack empirical evidence, relying heavily on anecdotal evidence provided by teachers as well as the beliefs of scholars.
Against this background, the present study aims to generate a translators’ version of translation theory from working practitioners’ meta-discourse about their professional practice. The main source of data comes from semi-structured interviews with seventeen successful translators who work in the language combination of English and Japanese. Using a methodologically eclectic approach (drawing on grounded theory, narrative inquiry and Discursive Psychology), the translators’ theorisation patterns are explored, which is then compared with various theories of translation that are popular within academia or related to the study outcomes.
The study revealed that the major concepts presented in the interviewees’ theorisation are: role of participants and natural/literal translations. Their accounts demonstrated a particular narrative structure involving the concepts of text type, money, feedback and repeated commission. In addition, scarce use of metaphor was identified as their discursive characteristics. By comparing the outcomes with the theories found within academia, I argue that the similarities and differences identified can be fed into translation pedagogy, particularly in relation to the notions presented in the theory of translatorial action, norm theory, skopos theory and dichotomous notions of translation such as foreignising and domesticating translations. Some suggestions of how to use those outcomes in the classroom will be presented too.Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:51:41 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/291572014-10-10T09:51:41ZA corpus based genre analysis of institutional translation in Koreahttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/28912
Title: A corpus based genre analysis of institutional translation in Korea
Authors: Choi, Jinsil
Abstract: National government translations inform an international audience about an institution’s political positions, policies, and ideologies. In this institutional settings, translation is de facto self-translation (Gagnon 2010a: 254), where producers of the originals and the translations are the same, the institution and the institution exerts control over every stage of the ST and the TT productions. In doing so, institutional images are reinforced and often changed in the translations. Although translational activities are very common in governments, surprisingly, translation issues related to politics and national institutional settings have received relatively little attention (Schäffner 2012), and no detailed research has been undertaken in regard to characteristics of the Korean government translation processes and products.
Drawing on corpus-based methodology, this study examines translation processes and products in three Korean government institutions, the art web magazine, Art:Mu, in the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the press briefings by the spokesperson in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the speeches by President Lee Myung-bak, with a view to identifying different agents and procedures involved in institutional translation practices, linguistic and genre features of translations, changes made in translations compared to the ST, and how those different factors in the processes can influence the outcomes. For this study, a specially designed parallel corpus of Korean and English, the Korean Institutional Corpus (KIC), is compiled incorporating 151,546 words.
It is shown that the more important the originals and the translation in terms of strategy and diplomacy, the higher degree of control in the process and the bigger changes in terms of frequency are found in the translations. It is hoped that this study will enhance our understanding of how factors of the processes can affect the products and encourage the development of translation practices in Korea.Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:37:17 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/289122014-06-16T09:37:17ZLa cultura visual en la Argentina. De la construcción binaria a la incertidumbrehttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/28803
Title: La cultura visual en la Argentina. De la construcción binaria a la incertidumbre
Authors: Garavelli, Clara
Editors: Gutman, M.; Molinos, R.
Abstract: Clara Garavelli esboza una interpretación de la cultura visual en la Argentina asumiendo su transformación como un recorrido que va desde una construcción binaria a la incertidumbre. Ensaya una mirada a las tradiciones iconográficas nacionales en la era global y la emergencia de formas artísticas post crisis del 2001. Delimita un campo en donde alojar el pensamiento artístico, la percepción y el imaginario del arte en tiempos de bicentenario. Las tecnologías emergentes, su difusión y el mercado en donde se reconocen nuevos colectivos artísticos, nuevas cuestiones y nuevos mapas, permiten la apertura de interrogantes para futuras indagaciones.Wed, 14 May 2014 13:56:17 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/288032014-05-14T13:56:17ZThe debate on the decline of Spainhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/28719
Title: The debate on the decline of Spain
Authors: Rawlings, Helen E.
Abstract: When, why and how did Spain fall from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century? These fundamental questions have exercised the minds of distinguished historians such as Prescott, Merriman, Hamilton, Braudel, Vilar, Vicens Vives, Elliott and Kamen and produced a prolific amount of writing. But while the subject of Spain’s decline has been subject to rigorous historical research, the debate between scholars underpinning it has not thus far been analyzed from a historiographical perspective. What are the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse? How have historians’ perceptions been influenced by time and circumstance? Why has the ‘Two Spains’ phenomenon endured as a historical paradigm against which to measure its fortunes? These are some of the issues this book will address in its appraisal of the historians of Spain’s decline and their discourse.
Description: General editor’s foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. The sixteenth century: the Black Legend
2. The seventeenth century: arbitrismo and decline
3. The eighteenth century: enlightened opinion
4. The nineteenth century: liberalism and conservatism
5. The early twentieth century: imperialism and decline
6. The mid-twentieth century: inter-disciplinary perspectives
7. The later twentieth century: the general crisis of the seventeenth century
8. The current debate: decline reappraised
Further reading
Index
Metadata only recordFri, 28 Mar 2014 11:18:52 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/287192014-03-28T11:18:52ZGoya's inquisition : from black legend to liberal legendhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/28709
Title: Goya's inquisition : from black legend to liberal legend
Authors: Rawlings, Helen E.
Abstract: In the opening decades of the 19th century, Goya sketched around 39 ink wash drawings, collected in his Album C (c. 1814-24), that depict with dramatic intensity the corporal and psychological punishments inflicted on those individuals whose behaviour or beliefs challenged the values of the conservative regime that had ruled Spain for generations. Around half of the drawings clearly relate to the practices of the Spanish Inquisition, the court of law founded at the end of the 15th century whose function was to root out heresy from within society and so strengthen its Catholic foundations. The captions that accompany the images refer to the judicial charge being brought to bear on the victims in each case and a stark contrast is established between the seemingly harmless nature of their alleged crimes and the severity of their treatment. Goya thus invites the viewer to perceive the Inquisition as a barbarous, inhumane institution, emblematic of Spain’s backwardness and its failure to embrace the concepts of liberty and reason associated with the modern age. This reputation, borne out of its early history and embodied in the so-called Black Legend perpetrated by Spain’s Protestant enemies in the 16th century, survived throughout the tribunal’s 300-year existence, although in practice by Goya’s time its propensity for abuse and the necessity of its role – fiercely defended by conservatives – had considerably diminished. Nevertheless, as this article will demonstrate, its past injustices were skilfully exploited by the artist, along with fellow political sympathisers, as if a current reality to serve the needs of their own liberal legend. [Introduction]Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:16:26 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/287092014-03-26T11:16:26ZThe religious orders and the crisis in the nomination of bishops in Castile under Philip IV (1621-1665)http://hdl.handle.net/2381/28673
Title: The religious orders and the crisis in the nomination of bishops in Castile under Philip IV (1621-1665)
Authors: Rawlings, Helen E.
Abstract: The seventeenth-century Spanish Church stood out among other Catholic countries of western Europe on account of the high percentage of members of the religious orders —especially Dominicans— recruited as bishops. While their authority as preachers and theologians, schooled in the post-Tridentine tradition, made them eminently suitable candidates for office, they had little of the secular experience regarded as a fundamental requirement of an episcopate that worked in close alliance with the state. The political and fiscal pressures placed on this alliance under Philip IV prompted an unprecedented crisis in the preferment of candidates to Castilian bishoprics, which resulted in the rise of the religious orders in the career of bishop.Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:14:51 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/286732014-03-19T14:14:51ZThe lieu factice : performance, identity, and place in French and Italian Queer documentary since 2000http://hdl.handle.net/2381/28536
Title: The lieu factice : performance, identity, and place in French and Italian Queer documentary since 2000
Authors: Brett, Oliver Joseph
Abstract: This research is motivated by the increased output of Queer documentary film in France and Italy from 2000 onwards, an increase which is seen to form part of a wider committed cinema. The impetus comes from a need to recognise the contribution of this output in marking a shift away from the categorisation of representations within set frameworks and identities to the deployment of the intricacies of documentary performance in creating an alternative and more complex sense of place and identity. In considering this shift I develop the notion of the lieu factice, which I offer as an original way of approaching the complexities of both the process of documentary representation and the context in which this takes place in France and Italy where ‘difference’ is generally subsumed in universal principles. The lieu factice is a temporary site of agency and resistance which allows identity and place to be explored in different ways, reflecting the position of Queer lives in contexts where the universal predominates and the interplay between visibility and invisibility is a complex phenomenon. As I progress through each chapter, providing detailed analysis of the selected films, I appropriate a range of Queer theoretical concepts to support my notion, which draws on the work of Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Leo Bersani and Nicholas de Villiers. The lieu factice is shaped by a range of representational and spatial dynamics in the foregrounding of ‘difference’ and is marked by shifts between local, national, and global spaces, both physical and imagined. The notion of ‘Queer documentary’ in France and Italy is seen to defy definition and centres on a notable challenge to the hegemony of the family as a heteronormative space within national narratives.Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:51:07 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/285362014-01-10T11:51:07ZMatter, Memory and Pre-Hispanic Myth: The Poetry of Bernardo Ortiz de Montellanohttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/28130
Title: Matter, Memory and Pre-Hispanic Myth: The Poetry of Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano
Authors: Penn, Sheldon C.
Abstract: In ‘La poesía indígena de México’ (1935), Ortiz de Montellano argues that the indigenous poetic image survives in translation. He equates the poetic word to the physical body and the image to the soul: the body/written word (in the divine, creative sense) may have perished but the soul (metaphysical essence) remains. This article shows how Montellano’s poetry – mediated through indigenous and classical influences – reflects the essay in its exploration of the relationship between dream, life and death. The poems discussed are ‘Segundo sueño’ (1933), ‘Muerte de cielo azul’ (1937) and, briefly, ‘Primero sueño’ (1931). Building on Flores Esquivel’s study of ‘Segundo sueño’, I contextualise Montellano’s work within contemporary aesthetic and intellectual currents, linking these to the cosmology of the Libro de Chilam Balam de Chumayel and the Popol Vuh. The article argues that Montellano’s appeal to the indigenous soul in his poetry is best understood within the contexts of Henri Bergson’s concept of durée, a philosophy that was influential in the early twentieth century in Mexico.Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:41:53 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/281302013-09-04T10:41:53ZHome Space, Language and Non-lieux in the late 20th Centure: Inscribing Loss, Plurality and Exile in the work of Régine Robinhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27938
Title: Home Space, Language and Non-lieux in the late 20th Centure: Inscribing Loss, Plurality and Exile in the work of Régine Robin
Authors: Jones, Elizabeth H.
Description: Embargo length currently unknown. Permission to make the text available has been requested from the publisher and the full text may be made available once this has been received.Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:46:40 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/279382013-06-05T14:46:40ZThe new Italian landscape: between Ghirri’s photography and Celati’s fictionhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27714
Title: The new Italian landscape: between Ghirri’s photography and Celati’s fiction
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Editors: Chantler, Ashley; Dente, Carla
Description: Metadata only entryWed, 23 Jan 2013 15:16:52 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/277142013-01-23T15:16:52Z‘Verso la foce’ con Gianni Celati: tra ‘antropologia di popolazioni invisibili’ e ‘estetica del reincanto’http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27713
Title: ‘Verso la foce’ con Gianni Celati: tra ‘antropologia di popolazioni invisibili’ e ‘estetica del reincanto’
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Editors: Bonsaver, G.; McLaughlin, M.; Pellegrini, F.
Description: Metadata only entryWed, 23 Jan 2013 14:55:08 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/277132013-01-23T14:55:08ZIl comico del limbo nell’opera di Cavazzoni, Benati e Celatihttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27712
Title: Il comico del limbo nell’opera di Cavazzoni, Benati e Celati
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Editors: Fuchs, Gerhild; Pagliardini, Angelo
Description: Metadata only entryWed, 23 Jan 2013 14:38:22 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/277122013-01-23T14:38:22ZLetteratura come Fantasticazione: In Conversazione con Gianni Celatihttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27711
Title: Letteratura come Fantasticazione: In Conversazione con Gianni Celati
Authors: Rorato, Laura; Spunta, Marina
Abstract: This volume examines the role of Gianni Celati in shaping Italian fiction and culture since the 1960s as a leading narrator, writer, scholar, translator and filmmaker.
Description: Metadata only entryWed, 23 Jan 2013 14:19:51 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/277112013-01-23T14:19:51ZClaudio Piersantihttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27710
Title: Claudio Piersanti
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Description: Metadata only entryWed, 23 Jan 2013 14:01:58 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/277102013-01-23T14:01:58ZEsplorazioni sulla via Emilia e dintorni—la fotografia italiana degli anni ‘80 in dialogo con la scrittura di paesaggiohttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27698
Title: Esplorazioni sulla via Emilia e dintorni—la fotografia italiana degli anni ‘80 in dialogo con la scrittura di paesaggio
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Description: Full text of this item is not currently available on the LRAFri, 18 Jan 2013 14:36:47 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/276982013-01-18T14:36:47ZConversazione con Jacopo Bencihttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27697
Title: Conversazione con Jacopo Benci
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Abstract: Jacopo Benci lives and works in Rome. His work encompasses photography, video & film, installation, performance, and has been shown in galleries and museums, and screened in festivals, in Italy, Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Russia, Thailand, UK, USA. His most recent solo exhibition, Sentieri invisibili (Invisible paths) was held at Hybrida Contemporanea gallery, Rome, 2010. Since January 1998 he is the Assistant Director for Fine Arts at the British School at Rome.
Description: Full text of this item is not currently available on the LRA.Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:13:48 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/276972013-01-18T14:13:48ZEscaping the World and Returning to the ‘Province’ in Claudio Piersanti’s Fictionhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27696
Title: Escaping the World and Returning to the ‘Province’ in Claudio Piersanti’s Fiction
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Editors: Riccobono, Rossella M.Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:26:23 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/276962013-01-18T13:26:23ZIntervista a Claudio Piersantihttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27665
Title: Intervista a Claudio Piersanti
Authors: Spunta, MarinaFri, 11 Jan 2013 15:02:19 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/276652013-01-11T15:02:19ZClaudio Piersanti e la "fuga dal mondo"http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27664
Title: Claudio Piersanti e la "fuga dal mondo"
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Description: Full text of this item is not currently available on the LRA.Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:11:33 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/276642013-01-11T14:11:33ZBook review : Archbishop Carranza hard times, vol 2, Gallery of personalities by Jose´ Ignacio Tellechea Idı´gorashttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27207
Title: Book review : Archbishop Carranza hard times, vol 2, Gallery of personalities by Jose´ Ignacio Tellechea Idı´goras
Authors: Rawlings, Helen E.
Abstract: Review of 'El arzobispo Carranza Tiempos recios, II : Galerı´a de personajes' By Jose´ Ignacio Tellechea
Idı´goras. Pp. 590. Salamanca: Publicaciones Universidad Pontificia/Fundacion
Universitaria Espanola, 2004.ISBN 84 7299 611 5; 84 7299 610 7Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:23:03 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/272072012-10-24T09:23:03ZBook review : The world of Catholic renewal, 1540-1770 by R. Po-Chia Hsiahttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/27208
Title: Book review : The world of Catholic renewal, 1540-1770 by R. Po-Chia Hsia
Authors: Rawlings, Helen E.
Abstract: Review of 'The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540–1770' by R. Po-Chia Hsia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005; pp. 268.Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:23:03 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/272082012-10-24T09:23:03ZFratricidal war: The conflict between the Mouvement national algérien (MNA) and the Front de libération nationale (FLN) in France during the Algerian war (1954-1962)http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27187
Title: Fratricidal war: The conflict between the Mouvement national algérien (MNA) and the Front de libération nationale (FLN) in France during the Algerian war (1954-1962)
Authors: Aissaoui, RWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:23:01 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/271872012-10-24T09:23:01ZWho's there? Shakespeare in production as heterotopia in Francehttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/25890
Title: Who's there? Shakespeare in production as heterotopia in France
Authors: Fayard, NWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:21:04 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/258902012-10-24T09:21:04ZSense of home and 'exile' in Giorgio Messori's narrative fictionhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/25892
Title: Sense of home and 'exile' in Giorgio Messori's narrative fiction
Authors: Spunta, Marina
Abstract: In this essay, I explore Messori's rendering of place by focusing on the coexisting themes of home and exile in his Uzbekan diary/travel narrative, Nella città del pane e dei postini (2005) and in some of his main short stories, which appeared posthumously in the volume Storie invisibili e altri racconti (2008). I investigate Messori's aesthetic consonance with other writers and artists, in particular with the late photographer, Luigi Ghirri, and argue that his work both builds on a long tradition of place and landscape representation, and makes an original contribution to the current critical debate on place and landscape, positing them as memory, contemplation, and imagination, highlighting the affective and relational experience of place, and voicing the postmodern condition of inhabiting displacement.
Description: Full text of this item is not currently available on the LRA.Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:21:04 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/258922012-10-24T09:21:04ZMassimo Bontempelli between de Chirico and Nietzsche: Mannequins, Marionettes, and the De-Humanized Subject in La scacchiera davanti allo specchio and Eva ultimahttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/24853
Title: Massimo Bontempelli between de Chirico and Nietzsche: Mannequins, Marionettes, and the De-Humanized Subject in La scacchiera davanti allo specchio and Eva ultima
Authors: Storchi, SWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:37 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/248532012-10-24T09:15:37ZGreen mansions to green hell: Travel writing on the Putumayo, 1874-1905http://hdl.handle.net/2381/24855
Title: Green mansions to green hell: Travel writing on the Putumayo, 1874-1905
Authors: Wylie, LWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:37 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/248552012-10-24T09:15:37ZDaniel Mesguich's Shakespearean play: Performing the Shakespeare mythhttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/24858
Title: Daniel Mesguich's Shakespearean play: Performing the Shakespeare myth
Authors: Fayard, NWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:37 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/248582012-10-24T09:15:37ZA balanced language: Spoken and dialogic style in the narrative of Francesca Durantihttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/24846
Title: A balanced language: Spoken and dialogic style in the narrative of Francesca Duranti
Authors: Spunta, MarinaWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:37 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/248462012-10-24T09:15:37ZAlgerian nationalists in the French political arena and beyond: The Etoile nord-africaine and the Parti du Peuple Algérien in interwar Francehttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/24832
Title: Algerian nationalists in the French political arena and beyond: The Etoile nord-africaine and the Parti du Peuple Algérien in interwar France
Authors: Aissaoui, RWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:36 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/248322012-10-24T09:15:36ZNi Putes ni Soumises: A republican feminism from the quartiers sensibleshttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/24843
Title: Ni Putes ni Soumises: A republican feminism from the quartiers sensibles
Authors: Fayard, N; Rocheron, YWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:36 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/248432012-10-24T09:15:36ZTurkey and the European union: An analysis of how the press in four countries covered Turkey's bid for accession in 2004http://hdl.handle.net/2381/24778
Title: Turkey and the European union: An analysis of how the press in four countries covered Turkey's bid for accession in 2004
Authors: Negrine, R; Kejanlioglu, B; Aissaoui, R; Papathanassopoulos, SWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:32 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/247782012-10-24T09:15:32ZRecycling Shakespeare in the 1990s: Contemporary developments on the French stagehttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/24782
Title: Recycling Shakespeare in the 1990s: Contemporary developments on the French stage
Authors: Fayard, NWed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:32 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/2381/247822012-10-24T09:15:32Z